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New Book “Contested Waste: Environmental conflicts and waste picker resistance in the Global South”

New book by Federico Demaria, Daniele Vico, Lucía Fernández Gabard to be out in July 2025 Pre-order from July 4th HERE. Description Contested Waste’ examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the …

Zijin: A Growing Metal Mining Chinese Transnational Firm

By Joan Martinez-Alier and Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Par of the Commodity Frontiers Journal, N. 7, free acces HERE. Abstract This article follows on previous EJAtlas work on the Vale company, Impregilo-Salini, and Total Energies, …

Diploma Superior en Atlas Global de la Justicia Ambiental

📢 ¡Anunciamos con entusiasmo la 1° Cohorte en modalidad virtual! 🌐📚 COORDINACIÓN ACADÉMICA: 👨‍🏫 Joan Martínez Alier (ICTA, Universitat de Barcelona, España) 👩‍🏫 Lucrecia Wagner (IANIGLA-CONICET, Argentina) 👩‍🏫 Grettel Navas (Universidad de …

New Analysis: “Black gold and green BRI–A grounded analysis of Chinese investment in coal-fired power plants in Indonesia”

By Bowen Gu Highlights First countrywide analysis of socio-environmental conflicts over coal-fired power plants with Chinese investment. Demonstrates how the politics from below shapes BRI energy infrastructure investment in practice. Analyzes the uneven development of CFPPs in …

Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice

Research based on the Environmental Justice Atlas – www.ejatlas.org Available at Global Environmental Change journal – ScienceDirect Authors: Antonio Bontempi, Pietro Venturi, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Quim Zaldo-Aubanell, Roser Maneja Zaragoza Abstract When are protected areas drivers of environmental injustices and conflict, and …

New: “Gendered violence martyring Filipina environmental defenders”

New research by DalenaTran, from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Spain. Read it now in the journal of The Extractive Industries and Society at Science …

NEW: “The role of working-class communities and the slow violence of toxic pollution in environmental health conflicts: A global perspective”

By Grettel Navas, Giacomo D’Alisa and Joan Martínez-Alier Available here or at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102474 Abstract Analysing a sample of 3,033 environmental conflicts around the globe, we compared conflicts reporting no human health impacts to …

Research Article: “Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU”

By Joan Martinez-Alier (ICTA-UAB) Recently published research article – Available at Taylor & Francis Online Abstract The economy is not circular, it is increasingly entropic. Energy from the photosynthesis of the distant past, …

A global environmental justice movement: mapping ecological distribution conflicts

By Joan Martínez-Alier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)AbstractAbstract: The industrial economy is not circular, it is entropic, therefore requiring new supplies of energy and materials extracted from the “commodity frontiers”, and …

Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

By Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorría, Federico Demaria, Sofía Avila, Brototi Roy, Irmak Ertör, Leah Temper, Joan Martínez-AlierAbstract.Recent research and policies recognize the importance …